Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Mennonite Mission Network staff

Dec. 19, 2011 issue

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  Photo by Andrew Clouse/MMN

  Fire damages New Mexico service house

  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Melanie Pilz dismounted her bicycle the afternoon of Dec. 12 after returning from her work placement and stared in disbelief at her house being boarded up, the outside and inside blackened by thick smoke.

  The first words out of her mouth were: “All of my memories are in there.”

Dec. 12, 2011 issue

• Couple honored for 5 decades devoted chiefly to peace

  CLINTON, Okla. — From Sunday mornings in church to burial of Native remains, Betty and Larence Hart are longtime champions of Native concerns and Anabaptist theology.

Oct. 24, 2011 issue

• Peace and justice minister announced

  ELKHART, Ind. — Jason Boone, a Raleigh, N.C., resident with extensive experience in social justice ministries, nonprofit communication and anti-poverty initiatives, has been chosen to lead the Peace and Justice Support Network as coordinating minister.

Oct. 10, 2011 issue

• Young adults go where God leads

  ELKHART, Ind. — Nearly 160 young adults are participating in a year or two of service through Mennonite Mission Network’s service programs — DOOR Dwell, Mennonite Voluntary Service, Radical Journey and Service Adventure.

Sept. 19, 2011 issue

• Service team switches from Bolivia to Paraguay

  ELKHART, Ind. — Five participants in Mennonite Mission Network’s Radical Journey service program, who were scheduled to spend 10 months in Bolivia, are instead heading to Asunción, Paraguay, due to complications in the Bolivian visa application process.

April 4, 2011 issue

• Cultural awareness aids DOOR director

  DENVER — As a third-grader, Antonio Lucero held a picture of his private school classroom in his hand, closed his eyes and prayed that God would make the picture disappear.

March 21, 2011 issue

• No reported injuries for MMN workers in Japan

  ELKHART, Ind. — Mennonite Mission Network reported March 14 that none of its workers or associates in Japan had indicated being harmed in the magnitude 8.9 earthquake that struck earlier in the day.

Jan. 24, 2011 issue

• Children learn peace is beautiful

  QUITO, Ecuador — Children sat in rapt attention as a team of peacemakers acted out the final tender scene of Oscar Wilde’s short story “The Selfish Giant” through a cardboard box, fashioned into a big-screen television.

Nov. 29, 2010 issue

• Bible study smashes social barriers in Chile

  VALDIVIA, Chile — Veronica Parra wanted to follow her young son to church, but since she had been told Christian women wore skirts and were supposed to be married to the men they lived with, she thought she would not be welcome.

Nov. 15, 2010 issue

• Anabaptists in U.K. get acquainted

  LONDON — About 50 people gathered Oct. 2 to discuss the hallmarks of an Anabaptist community and how scattered Anabaptists can work together effectively.

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